The three kings!!

Taking some time off on a Monday morning thought of filling my blog space with another post. Mmm.. what should it be this time? A lot of ppl reading my last post told me that I took them back to A310 where they had their own night mares. Well I guess everyone does. One of the most curios questions that runs in your mind when you are writing an Exam in that in that huge A310 hall is that "Is the question paper tough only for me.. or for others too.." coz all you see is people writing pages and pages and you sit there struggling to get an extra sheet so that you will have something to tie your paper to when the staff distributes the THREAD.

 

this blog is about another one of those memorable nightmares that happened in A310. Before that I need to talk to about two other people who made this blog happen. Srini and Thendral. Both my good friends in college and I always felt more comfortable with them during exam times coz we all had same CGPA. Well in fact mine was a shade better and was a bit happy to find two people below me in the class rankings :)

 

But for some reason all of a sudden we get this sudden burst of studying for one exam and proving ourselves. So the three of us decided on what exam is going to be. It was the first internals of Utilization of Electrical Energy. It was more of a theory paper where u can get away writing some jargons but we were not scared of the course but the instructor. His name was JK (not to be expanded in the blog). People who know him know how tough he is and in all his classes were more silent and serious than a board exam. We could not talk, sleep or send sms in the class. It was like an hour of freeeze. For some reason we chose his exam and taht too being the first internals not much was there to study.

 

The three of us studied hard and on the day of the exam we were sure to get atleast 27 or 28 out of 30. Believe me it was a dream target for me and not once in all those 5 years i Remember getting such a high mark in internal exam. So three of us combines should be getting more than 80 at least. It feels sooo good when you are so confident and happy about the fact that for the first time the myth of group studies has worked. I ve always believed combined studies (boy teaching a girl or vice versa) has a better chance of working than group studies (men teaching men).

 

Ok now into the exam hall A310... well before I take you inside the exam hall I have to tell what happened to me a few minutes before that. It was a new crush that I was having in college at that time and some very good friend of mine (dont remember who.. good for him.. else i want to beat him now.. My guess is that it is dhilip/sujan) told me how to differentiate between a crush and love. He said.. when you are doing something else if that girl keeps coming to your mind it is love.. I said i dont understand.. he says.. "say when u r writing an exam.. like now.. and that girl keeps coming to your mind then you are in love with her.. so all you have to do it.. whenever you think of the girl in the exam hall put a mark on your paper.. If the number of cross marks exceeds 5 or 10 in the first 30 minutes then you are in love.."

 

I really want to give him a Nobel prize for decoding the symptoms of love in paper. And when you say that all I can think of is that girl. and sayin to myself.. am i in love or am i not? am i or am i not?

 

And now I enter the exam hall. The JK arrives with the question paper. Thendral and Srini are roaring to go. I am thinking Am I or AM i not? As soon as we get the question paper JK says those who dont have a calculator please walk out of the exam hall. He was known for his strictness and not only him the entire EEE department. We had many names for that kind of strictness (like psych dept and so on..) and no one dares to question them. It was actually a theory paper and the three of us did not realise that we would ever need a calculator. And there was only one 2 mark problem in the exam and to do that you really dont need a calculator or u can skip that too.

 

Thendral the most obedient boy walks out of the exam hall because he did not have a calci. Felt sad for him. He had worked hard but now has scored a ZERO. I accidentally had a calculator not because I remembered to get one. I always wear the same jeans pant with a big 712 written all over in it. Never washed in it. And guess the calculator was there in the pant  for sometime now. Must have kept it a week back I thought. So I escaped. Srini did not have a calci too. He uses all his soft skills.. inter personal skills.. and communication skills.. and manages to convince JK by saying "Sir please sir.. sir i ve studied well.. this and that.." JK did tell him to leave but finally said alright. So JK did let him write the exam.

 

Thendral was standing outside furious thinking if he shud ve also asked and not just walked out. The exam starts.. I am still thinkin AM i or AM i not? I put a cross mark every time and in the first fifteen minutes I had marked it 20 times.. Oh shitt.. I am in love.. felt so happy for being in love.. Felt like singing a song.. flying around.. like they show in movies and i was sitting here writing an exam .. No ways.. I am in love.. I walked and gave me answer paper back wiht a few lines written.. he corrected it there and gave me 6.5. I dont careeeeeeee... i left the hall too..

 

Thendral got even more mad coz i had a calci and could have atleast given it to him. But we were happy that atleast Srini got a chance to write the exam. He wrote and wrote.. additional paper over additional paper.. Haa.. have never seen him write like that.. So much he wrote.. and finally after 1.5 hours of hard work the exam was over.

 

Here is the icing on the cake: Srini walks and gives the paper and JK straight away puts a ZEROOOOO... hahah..

JK says "I told you to leave before you were the one who wanted to write the exam but i cant correct this.. Get out now.."

 

HAHAHAHAHA.. me and thendral were laughin like hell.. So the combined score was 6.5.. and we felt even studying for an exam cant really help us!!

 

Machi vaada NMB polaam..

 

Cheers!!

 

Nambi